From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 19 20:33:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A07C106564A for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:33:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ports@webrz.net) Received: from webrz.xs4all.nl (webrz.xs4all.nl [82.95.248.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146DF8FC08 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:33:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webrz.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by webrz.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7659050840; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:33:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.10.10.71] (aegir.webrz.net [10.10.10.71]) by webrz.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5998F5082C; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:33:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C967393.60004@webrz.net> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:33:23 +0200 From: Jos Chrispijn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Trulsson References: <4C963526.6020201@webrz.net> <20100919170117.GA26484@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20100919170117.GA26484@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-AV-Checked: ClamAV using ClamSMTP @triton.webrz.net Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Double versions installed X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:33:24 -0000 On 19-9-2010 19:01, Erik Trulsson wrote: > That is perfectly normal. Some programs require one specific version > of autoconf, while others require another version, so one easily ends > up with more than one version installed. They can live side-by-side so > having more than one version installed is not a problem. I see. But out of a programmers point of view, I would never stick to my old versions but update to newer ones because I need to catch up with other new program versions that need mine. In this way a programmer is forced to keep maintaining his older version allthough he moves forward with the rest of the crowd. > Just use pkg_delete to remove it. If anything has it as a run-time > dependency (most unlikely) pkg_delete will complain and refuse to > remove it so you donät need to worry about breaking anything by > removing it. ok, thanks for your explanation. regards, Jos Chrispijn